Past Events 2018​

The Mary Ward Centre will be facilitating an interactive, interfaith, and inter-generational workshop that celebrates the diverse insights of various religious traditions at the Parliament of World Religion in Toronto.

Based on the Courage to Teach® and Circle of Trust ® programs, this professional development opportunity supports the personal and professional renewal of educators, and those in other helping professions.This professional retreat does not focus on professional techniques or institutional reform. Rather, it supports the renewal of the self-knowledge and emotional intelligence of participants.The program offers participants opportunities to reflect on the inner dimensions of their professional lives. Up to 30 participants are invited to engage in honest self-reflection and explore questions about purpose, values, and commitment to challenging work. In doing so, participants are invited to increase a capacity to listen to self and others more deeply, to reconnect their inner passion with their outer work, in order to show up more wholeheartedly. Participation is always by invitation and not demand – attendees participate and share according to their own comfort level.

This retreat will feature the Clearness Committee discernment process to deepen listening skills and explore open, honest questions. Mardi Tindal and Michael Saver, skilled facilitators certified by the Center for Courage and Renewal (www.couragerenewal.org) founded by esteemed educator, author and activist Parker J. Palmer, work to create a trustworthy space - a circle of trust - within which participants may explore their deepest wisdom to find courage and renewal for their life and work.

CITIZENS FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE AGM 2018JOURNEY TO JUSTICE: REFLECTIONS ON CANADIAN CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM

An introduction to Journeys to Justice by CPJ's Joe Gunn. Reading and commentary from contributors, including Moria, Peter Noteboom, John Olthuis, Jennefer, Leah Watkiss & David Pfrimmer

Copies of Journeys to Justice will be available for purchase on site, with signings by attending contributors.

Venue: The Mary Ward Centre, 70 St. Mary Street, Toronto

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GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: ​MARY WARD EXCURSION 2018

The Mary Ward Centre is excited to provide international IBVM and CJ students and their teachers an opportunity for the exchange of experiences in Canada.

THE KAIROS BLANKET EXERCISE PROJECT 2017-18

Dates: October 18th, 2017 - May 2nd, 2018Time: 10:00am - 2:00pmLocation: The Mary Ward Centre, 70 St. Mary StreetRegistration: Registration is on a first-come-first serve basis. Teachers are permitted to bring one class of 30 students per school.

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is a unique partnership between KAIROS, Toronto Catholic District School Board and The Mary Ward Centre.

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is an interactive learning experience that explores the Indigenous rights history rarely taught. Developed in response to the 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, which recommended education on Canadian-Indigenous history as one of the key steps to reconciliation, the Blanket Exercise covers over 500 years of history in a participatory workshop.

For complete details about this project, and to learn more about the Blanket Exercise, please download a copy of the Information Brochure.

METANOIA @ THE MARY WARD CENTRE

Dates and Times:

Tues. December 12th, 2017 @ 9:00am - 2:30pm

Tues. February 13rd, 2018 @ 9:00am - 2:30pm

Tues. March 20th, 2018 @ 9:00am - 2:30pm

​Location: The Mary Ward Centre, 70 St. Mary Street

Metanoia @ The Mary Ward Centre introduces students to the realities of some of our world’s injustices, with the hope that students may not only change their own hearts and perspectives about injustices, but that they may move to action to help transform our world. This innovative program enables participants to recognize and thus move into action.

The Mary Ward Centre offers the Ethical Considerations certification for SHSM students in TCDSB.

Using concrete examples and interactive activities, this program explores a variety of justice related issues including materialism, consumerism, inequality and greed, particularly in relation to our current environmental crisis. We will examine our ethical responsibility, focusing on the movement from charity to justice.

Drawing upon the wisdom of such figures as Pope Francis and Mary Ward, students are encouraged to challenge current modern day assumptions about what is necessary for a “good life”. Using The Earth Charter and Sustainable Development Goals as a framework, participants are challenged to consider what it means to be a global citizen and creatively imagine new ways of engaging themselves, others and the world. By realizing that there are alternatives and hopeful ways to effect change, students will be renewed in their desire for justice.

LIVING AND LEADING WITH COURAGE AND INTEGRITY- A CIRCLE OF TRUST PROFESSIONAL RETREAT

Based on the Courage to Teach® and Circle of Trust ® programs, this professional development opportunity supports the personal and professional renewal of educators, and those in other helping professions.This professional retreat does not focus on professional techniques or institutional reform. Rather, it supports the renewal of the self-knowledge and emotional intelligence of participants.The program offers participants opportunities to reflect on the inner dimensions of their professional lives. Up to 30 participants are invited to engage in honest self-reflection and explore questions about purpose, values, and commitment to challenging work. In doing so, participants are invited to increase a capacity to listen to self and others more deeply, to reconnect their inner passion with their outer work, in order to show up more wholeheartedly. Participation is always by invitation and not demand – attendees participate and share according to their own comfort level.Mardi Tindal and Michael Saver, skilled facilitators certified by the Center for Courage and Renewal (www.couragerenewal.org) founded by esteemed educator, author and activist Parker J. Palmer, work to create a trustworthy space - a circle of trust - within which participants may explore their deepest wisdom to find courage and renewal for their life and work.

Dinner4:45pm Arrival5:00pm-7:00pm Dinner for Community Leadership Teams and TreasurersThe cost of the dinner is $25. Please register on Eventbrite by Friday, January 25th: www.jemdinner.eventbrite.ca

Public Lecture7:30pm-9:00pm Free public lecture with Heather EatonNo registration required.

Thursday, February 8

JEM Gathering: Flourishing of Life for All9:00am-9:30om Registration9:30am-3:30pm Programming for representative of religious congregations, including an address from Heather Eaton, and a call to action from CPJThe cost of the day is $25. Please register on Eventbrite by Friday, January 25th: www.jemevent.eventbrite.ca

How are we called to be a prophetic voice for action on climate change?

Keynote speaker: Heather EatonHeather Eaton is a professor at Saint Paul University. She has a PhD in ecology, feminism, theology and religious pluralism. Her recent work looks at religious imagination, evolution, peace and conflict studies on gender, ecology, religion, animal rights and non-violence.